Our Investments (rollover logo to view details)
Mangahigh
Mangahigh is a games-based learning site focusing on maths for secondary school students. Free for schools and students, Mangahigh features high quality games that emphasize rapid-fire learning of different maths techniques. Mangahigh was founded by Toby Rowland, co-founder of both King.com and Clickmango.com.
Mangahigh is backed by PROfounders Capital and Revolution Learning Ventures out of the US.
Made.com
Made.com brings high quality, high end, made-to-order furniture, at low prices, to the UK market. Products are sent directly from the manufacturer to the consumer, cutting out any middlemen. Also, items are available only online, keeping prices 60-80% lower than traditional retail stores.
Made.com is backed by PROfounders Capital, Jaina Capital (formed by Meetic founder Mark Simoncini), and John Hunt, founder of Seattle Coffee Company and Obongo.
Keynoir
Keynoir is an exclusive buying club that gives its members access to a great lifestyle packed with indulgent and fun experiences in major cities around the world. The founders and former senior executives of Kelkoo, Lastminute.com, Bebo and Yahoo are behind Keynoir.
Keynoir is backed by PROfounders Capital, Index Ventures, and angel investors from the US and Europe.
TweetDeck
TweetDeck builds mobile and desktop applications to help people manage and make meaning from the real time web, including Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, and LinkedIn. TweetDeck, which drives over 15% of worldwide "tweets", allows users to extract meaning from the firehose of real time data overwhelming them.
TweetDeck is backed by PROfounders Capital, Betaworks, TAG, and angel investors from the US and Europe.
Our Network (rollover logo to view details)
bebo
Founded by husband and wife Michael and Xochi Birch in July 2005, Bebo is a popular social networking website. Bebo has steadily risen to become one of the world's most popular social networking sites. Users can create profiles on the site for free, stay connected with friends, watch videos, and listen to music. In early 2008 Bebo had over 34 million registered users and 7 billion monthly page views. Bebo was acquired by AOL in March 2008 for $850 million.
mydeco
mydeco was founded by the management team behind lastminute.com, one of Europe's most successful ever online businesses. mydeco.com brings together more than 3 million home ware products, from 1500 retailers. From high end to high street, mass market to niche, mydeco makes it easier to find what you are looking for without having to trawl the high street. The site features the latest technology innovations to help you find inspiration, create a space, share ideas and shop for your home.
Lastminute.com
Founded by Brent Hoberman, lastminute.com is the most popular travel and leisure site in the UK with around 2.5 million people logging on every week to find the best travel deals. In addition, the company is the largest retailer of West End theatre tickets, selling one in ten of every seat sold, which equates to more than 1.5 million tickets every single year. The business also sells hotel rooms from a staggering 80,000 properties worldwide and flights from across 300 airlines. lastminute.com sends over 750,000 people on package holidays each year. The company was taken public in 2000 and sold to Sabre for $1.1 billion in 2005.
Pipex
Pipex was the UK's first commercial ISP and has over 17 years' experience in delivering Internet services to small businesses. Now forming part of Opal and the TalkTalk Group, Pipex offers users a fast, reliable connection, excellent UK based customer support, and unrivalled expertise.
365 Media
365 Media Group, formerly led by Peter Dubens, runs a network of sports news and content websites, including TEAMtalk, Football365, sportinglife.com and Sportal, attracting twelve million users per month. The company is also involved in content syndication to other media owners and mobile network operators. The business was sold to Sky for £96 million in Dec 2006.
Birthday Alarm
Birthday Alarm was started in 2001 by Michael and Xochi Birch and Paul Birch to provide a simple way for people to remember birthdays. Today, the business has over 50 million users. The original idea for the website was simple, remind people of birthdays, and today has evolved into a more comprehensive service.